A Librarian Out of the Library
As librarians move into new roles, such as research data management, they sometimes find themselves moving, both organizationally and physically, out of the library. While this dislocation can be professionally unsettling, the shift in perspective that it brings can heighten their and their colleagu...
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description | As librarians move into new roles, such as research data management, they sometimes find themselves moving, both organizationally and physically, out of the library. While this dislocation can be professionally unsettling, the shift in perspective that it brings can heighten their and their colleagues’ appreciation for the particular skills and talents that librarians can bring to the research enterprise. |
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spelling | doaj.art-2726469771c44bbfbb9373e9377434a02023-01-02T12:03:27ZengUMass Chan Medical School, Lamar Soutter LibraryJournal of eScience Librarianship2161-39742016-10-0151e110610.7191/jeslib.2016.1106A Librarian Out of the LibraryT. Scott Plutchak0University of Alabama at BirminghamAs librarians move into new roles, such as research data management, they sometimes find themselves moving, both organizationally and physically, out of the library. While this dislocation can be professionally unsettling, the shift in perspective that it brings can heighten their and their colleagues’ appreciation for the particular skills and talents that librarians can bring to the research enterprise.http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol5/iss1/7/RDMlibrariansdata managementorganizational culture |
spellingShingle | T. Scott Plutchak A Librarian Out of the Library Journal of eScience Librarianship RDM librarians data management organizational culture |
title | A Librarian Out of the Library |
title_full | A Librarian Out of the Library |
title_fullStr | A Librarian Out of the Library |
title_full_unstemmed | A Librarian Out of the Library |
title_short | A Librarian Out of the Library |
title_sort | librarian out of the library |
topic | RDM librarians data management organizational culture |
url | http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol5/iss1/7/ |
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